HSFNEWS Digest - 24 May 2011 to 25 May 2011 (#2011-61)

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Date: May 25th 2011

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EXPEDITION 27 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN
STS-134 MCC Status Report #17
STS-134 MCC Status Report #18

Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:12:44 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: EXPEDITION 27 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

May 23, 2011

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston
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Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #H11-161

EXPEDITION 27 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

WASHINGTON -- Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Monday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station

The trio landed at 10:27 p m (8:27 a m on May 24 local time) at a site southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan Kondratyev, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the spacecraft as it undocked at 5:35 p m EDT from the station's Rassvet module Once the Soyuz was 600 feet away, Nespoli took the first still images and video of a space shuttle docked to the station The orbiting laboratory had to rotate 130 degrees to provide an ideal view for the historic imagery

Russian recovery teams were on hand to help the crew exit the Soyuz and adjust to gravity Kondratyev will return to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, outside of Moscow, while NASA's Coleman and Nespoli of the European Space Agency will fly directly to Houston

They launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec 15, 2010 As members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews, they spent 159 days in space, 157 of them aboard the station They worked on more than 150 microgravity experiments in human research; biology and biotechnology; physical and materials sciences; technology development; and Earth and space sciences

During the trio's mission, the station welcomed a quick succession of international space vehicles including the Japanese Kounotori2, or "white stork," H-II Transfer Vehicle 2; two Russian Progress cargo ships; the European Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle-2; and space shuttles Discovery and Endeavour on their final flights The shuttles delivered more than 15 tons of supplies necessary for working and living aboard the station, as well as the new cosmic ray detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

A veteran of three space flights, Coleman has logged 179 days in space Nespoli has chalked up 174 days in space on his two flights Kondratyev completed his first space mission

Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineers Ron Garan of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev remain aboard the station

Three new Expedition 28 crew members, Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, NASA Flight Engineer Mike Fossum and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa, will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 3:15 p m on June 7 (2:15 a m Baikonur time June 8) and dock to the complex two days later

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For a schedule of upcoming flights to the station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/stationflights

To view Coleman's and Garan's mission updates on their Twitter pages, visit:

http://www twitter com/Astro_Cady

and

http://www twitter com/Astro_Ron

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:31:22 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #17

STS-134 Report #17 1:30 p m CDT Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Preparations for the missionï¿½s third spacewalk, station maintenance and repairs kept Endeavour crew members busy much of Tuesday

The spacewalk, by Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel and Mike Fincke, is scheduled to begin at 12:46 a m CDT Wednesday Scheduled tasks include installation of a power and data grapple fixture on the Zarya module to serve as another base for the stationï¿½s Canadarm2

Theyï¿½ll also install power jumper cables to bring power to Zarya from the U S segment of the station and install a video signal converter on Zarya They plan to complete installation of cables for the external wireless communications system, a task postponed from the missionï¿½s first spacewalk on Friday

Tuesday the two spacewalkers and Greg Chamitoff, their intravehicular officer, configured spacewalk tools Late in their day, all crew members gathered for a review of spacewalk procedures

A new twist to this outing will be use of the in-suit light exercise protocol to help purge nitrogen from the blood of the spacewalkers It consists of raising legs and arms while suited up for about 50 minutes, surrounded by a total of 50 minutes of rest in the suits It avoids the overnight campout procedure and saves oxygen

Shortly after wakeup, Fincke, with help from station Flight Engineer Ron Garan, replaced a remote power controller module, essentially a circuit breaker box that allows transfer of files to the ground Some experiment data was affected, but many of those experiments can store data for later transmission

Meanwhile Endeavour Commander Mark Kelly worked to replace a desiccant bed in a station carbon dioxide removal assembly Later in the work day, Fincke and Chamitoff worked to replace an element of an oxygen generation system

Endeavour astronauts also got a couple of hours of off-duty time

Just before midnight, Pilot Greg Johnson and Chamitoff talked with media representatives from two San Francisco stations, KPIX-TV and KGO-TV, and Sacramentoï¿½s KFBK Radio At about 5:45 a m Kelly, Fincke and Chamitoff fielded questions from The Daily, NewsRadio 1020 KDHA in Pittsburgh, Houstonï¿½s KTRK-TV and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:38:24 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #18

STS-134 Report #18 Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 9:30 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

Another day of spacewalk activity is on tap for the combined space shuttle and International Space Station crews today

The Endeavour and Expedition 28 crews woke at 6:56 p m CDT to the song ï¿½Real Worldï¿½ by Matchbox 20 for shuttle Pilot Greg Johnson

Shortly after wake-up, the focus will turn to spacewalk preparations Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will try a new procedure before their extravehicular venture Normally, the spacewalkers spend the night before their spacewalk sleeping in a secluded module at a reduced atmosphere

The new procedure, In-Suit Light Exercise (ISLE), allows for the crew members to sleep in the normal configuration After wake-up, the participants breathe pure oxygen for one hour as air pressure in the module is lowered to 10 2 pounds per square inch They then don their spacesuits and perform light exercise, such as small leg motions, for 50 minutes to increase their metabolic rate and purge nitrogen from their bloodstream

The spacewalk will begin shortly before 1 a m when the two leave the Quest Airlock The spacewalk is primarily focused on maintenance and installation tasks, many on the Russian segment They will install a power and data grapple fixture, a video signal converter and various cables onto the Zarya module They also will install an antenna, perform imagery documentation and time permitting the crew will tuck in a small piece of insulation on a Cargo Transport Container

STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly and Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff will again support the spacewalk activities, with Chamitoff serving as the intravehicular officer Johnson and Mission Specialist Roberto Vittori will work on stowage and packing Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Ron Garan will support some of the post-spacewalk activities, and station Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev will work on station maintenance

The next status report will be issued Wednesday, or earlier if warranted

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 24 May 2011 to 25 May 2011 (#2011-61)

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